I had been keeping four cows in a shallow pit two blocks deep, four wide, and ten long, open to the sky, but surrounded by fences (the idea being to let me in without allowing them to wander out through the fence gate). I left them for an extended deep digging session.
On my return I find I have only one cow remaining. While staring disconsolately at my now-defunct leather farm, I noticed that a) the remaining cow eats grass from time to time (like a sheep), and b) most of the floor is actually stone, not grass, so there isn't much available.
I have sheep and chickens in identical adjacent pens. They appear to be fine (no losses). The sheep did have more grass.
I am wondering if my other cows might have starved to death, or succumbed somehow to overcrowding. Is that possible? If not, how else might they have disappeared?
Best Answer
No. Cows and other animals cannot starve to death. It's possible that some of them glitched into a wall and suffocated, but besides that, I can think of no other possible explanations.